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With the dramatic rise in the price of bitcoin, investors and major news outlets are again taking notice of the digital asset that has struggled to find a mainstream niche. A niche bitcoin has managed to fill is the counter-culture digital libertarian desire for autonomy in all...

Size matters. Well, volume matters. In bitcoin, exchanges are judged by their volume, the relative portion of the market that passes between buyers and sellers on a specific platform. The consolidation of the bitcoin space has seen giants felled by way of scandal, regulation, and...

It’s time. It is officially time. It’s the next big thing. It’s going to the moon. It’s time for the believers to be vindicated. Shun the non-believers. HODL your coins and hang on to your butts, a bunch of techno-libertarians are about to have enough money to finally move out....

Earlier this month, CoinReport covered the legal battle between Kenyan mobile financial services companies BitPesa and Safaricom. According to an article published by allAfrica, a judge ruled in favor of Safaricom, which claimed that BitPesa needed to be approved by the Kenyan...

A researcher with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems recently created a machine-learning algorithm that can predict the price of Bitcoin, allowing his research...

Those of you who are obsessively tracking the price of Bitcoin have a new factor to watch: the weather. KnCMiner, a cloud mining company based in Sweden, announced today that they’ll be dropping their prices to $249 USD for a six-month contract at 400 GH/s. The reason for the...

Bitcoin is crashing, and that’s okay. Earlier this week, the price of Bitcoin dived precipitously, reaching lows not seen since Bitcoin’s last big crash. At time of writing, the price is below $500, the lowest level since May. There’s a decent chance it’ll...